Kantianism

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proper n. The philosophical system of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and his followers; also called transcendental idealism.

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He rejected the codification of ethics into moral theories that views such as Kantianism and (above all) utilitarianism see as essential to philosophical thinking about ethics, arguing that our ethical life is too untidy to be captured by any systematic moral theory.

Ethical awareness Dignity of persons A sort of pop Kantianism which is triggered when it is thought that Assertion of, and acting upon, one's people are used as means and that proper dignity is not respected. values.

This fallacy is rife throughout both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, and is visible in social constructivisms that reduce being to discourses about being, forms of phenomenology that reduce being to sense-bestowing intuition or only allow us to talk of being in terms of being-given or donated, and, of course, Kantianism.